Binding



(No Model.)

M. M. BEEMAN.

V BINDING. N0. 490,819. Patented Jan. 31, 1893.

WITJVESSES: INVENTOR.

Nr'ra MARCUS M. BEEMAN, OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK.

BINDING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 490,819, dated January31, 1893.

Application filed June 29,1891. Serial No. 397.788- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MARCUS M. BEEMAN, of Syracuse, in the county ofOnondaga, in the State of New York, have invented new and usefulImprovements in Bindings, of which the following, taken in connectionwith the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to bindings made from goods cut on a bias; and myinvention consists in a binding consisting of strips of cloth stitchedtogether at their meeting ends, and having one of the butt ends,exterior to the stitching, made shorter than the other butt, and thelong butt of the one strip secured over the short butt of the otherstrip and onto the back of the other strip.

It is constructed as follows, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, in which I illustrate the mode of making it from the goods inthe piece, and in which,

Figure 1, is a top plan view of two rhomboids of the material, disposedone upon the other, face to face, ready for the stitching together ofthe meeting edges (or the ends of the strips) when the rhomboids are.cutinto strips before being fastened together. Fig. 2, is a longitudinalsection of part of two rhomboids (or two strips) after being stitchedtogether and turned so that their faces are in the same horizontalplane; and showing the butts or ends exterior to the stitching, as leftby the stitching and not folded or flattened down, one butt beingshorter than the other. Fig. 3, is a like view of the same showing thelong butt partially folded down, or lapped over the short butt onto theback of the other rhomboid or strip, and a strip of cement between itand said back. Fig. 4., is a like view of the same, showing the longbutt folded down and secured over the short butt and onto the back ofthe adjacent rhomboid or strip. Fig. 5, is a top plan of the back aftertwo (or more) rhomboids are stitched together and the long buttscemented down, and straightened out as in Fig. 2, and showing a strip ofbinding partially cut off on a line parallel with the sides of therhomboids so secured together.

As shown in Figs. 1 and 5, I first cut the goods. on an angle offorty-five degrees to the selvages, at such distances apart as to createequal sided rhomboids a and thereby cutting the warp and weft threadsupon that line of bias. I do not limit myself, however, to any preciseangle of bias cut. I can also out the material on a bias, and then cutthe bias cut pieces into strips a'- of such width as may be desiredbefore securing the ends together.

As the joint is made between two rhomboids, and two strips, in the samemanner, I will only describe the making thereof between two rhomboids. Iplace two of them, one upon the other, face to face, and stitch theirmeeting ends together creating butts, exterior to the stitching, ofequal or substantially equal length, in their projection beyond thestitching, and trim one of the butts oif short, or close to thestitching, thus creating a long butt c and a short one c'. I thenstraighten out the rhomboids, as shown in I Fig. 2, and fold the longbutt over the short it to the back of the other rhomboid as in Fig.

l, after which I cut the rhomboids, by parallel lines, into strips asshown in Fig. 5. It will thus be seen that the joint is made bystitching and by securing the long butt of one strip, across and overthe stitching, onto the back of the other strip, so that the stitchingin the joint is re-inforced by the over-lapping goods.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is,

A binding consisting of strips of material, having their meeting endsstitched together and having one of the butts reduced in its projection,exterior to the stitching, and having the long butt of one strip foldedover the short butt of the adjoining strip, and secured by cement oversaid butt and onto the back of the adjoining strip, substantially, asand for the purposes set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 1st day of June,1891.

MARCUS M. BEEMAN.

In presence of- HOWARD P. Dawson, 0. W. SMITH.

